congokid <
[email protected]> wrote:
> >i actually bined it there (springbank) the other friday in the rain. result was a truely
> >impressive bruise! to make the day complete (i had already had a puncture) the woman in the car
> >behind me rolled forward a little to see if i was ok and ran over my back wheel!
>
> Reminds me about the time a couple of years ago when I had a spill heading home just as I was
> entering Sloane Square in London. I was slowly easing my way through a gap between kerb and cars
> when my front wheel caught in a drain and over I went. The next thing I knew I was being nudged
> in the back by the front left wheel of the Smart car that had been waiting in the queue entering
> the square.
>
> Luckily the driver sensed an obstruction in her path (or maybe even saw me fall over) and got out
> of the car to see if I was all right.
>
> Left an impressive tyre tread mark across the back of my yellow Goretex jacket.
I was once SMIDSYed when on a motorbike, I threw it down and slid with it under the front of the
car. Then from ground level tried to negotiate with the dippy blonde that refused to reverse off me,
because " after the last time this happened my insurance company told me not move my vehicle"